Operations Research and Logistics
Operations Research and Logistics, with chairholder Sander de Leeuw, aims to contribute to the state-of-the-art of Operations Research and Logistics Management in agrifood and biobased supply chains to cope with contemporary complexity issues by developing innovative logistics concepts, decision support models, and solution approaches.
Research
Our research projects focus on decision making in the domain of agrifood and biobased supply chain. Central in these projects is the increasing complexity and uncertainty, as well as the specific characteristics of our domain. Our work supports organisations in
achieving robust performance, including the trade-offs between costs, service, quality and sustainability.
Our research covers the following themes:
- Sustainable supply chains
- Quality and waste within agri-food supply chains
- Sustainable diet modelling
- Metropolitan logistics
- Logistics in a circular (bio-based) economy
Education
Education by this Chair Group
The ORL group offers a variety of courses that are taken by bachelor and master students from all study programs of WUR. Besides following our courses, we welcome students to write their bachelor thesis, master thesis or execute their internship at our group, under the supervision of one of our professionals. For detailed information, please click on the menu in the right.
Publications & Projects
Our research projects focus on decision making in the domain of agrifood and biobased supply chain. Central in these projects is the increasing complexity and uncertainty, as well as the specific characteristics of our domain. Our work supports organisations in
achieving robust performance, including the trade-offs between costs, service, quality and sustainability.
Highlighted publications
- A Well-Balanced Vegan Diet Does not Compromise Daily Mixed Muscle Protein Synthesis Rates when Compared with an Omnivorous Diet in Active Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Cross-Over Trial
- Diet optimization: modeling iron and zinc absorption by nonlinear programming and piecewise linear approximation using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
- Meal planning under uncertainty: How shopping frequency affects food waste
Chair Holder
Sander de Leeuw is professor and chairholder of Operations Research and Logistics. His research focusses on supply chain managment but also looks at design methodology and system analysis.
prof.dr.ir. SLJM (Sander) de Leeuw
Professor / Chairholder
People of Operations Research and Logistics
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